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Missing out on free Jabber/Google Talk Notifications from your Kayako Installation?

Not anymore you’re not. Today we released a little set of patches for Kayako SupportSuite that will allow you to send ticket alerts, and any other alert that Kayako supports through Google Talk, XMPP, Jabber whatever you want to call it. The modification is free, and easy to install with our handy documentation. What are [...]

Monitoring Asterisk with SNMP, Nagios and Nagios Administrator using Ubuntu LTS 8.0.4 Server

Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to [...]

Become Part of History – Download Firefox 3

We downloaded ours, have you? Today you’ll make history with Firefox Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from [...]

How to fix your hackable SSH on Debian and Ubuntu Servers

If you’re running debian or ubuntu, your ssh keys are vulnerable. Follow these steps to regenerate them and secure your box back up. apt-get update apt-get upgrade cd /etc/ssh/ rm ssh_host_dsa_key rm ssh_host_dsa_key.pub rm ssh_host_rsa_key rm ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ssh-keygen -t dsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key) ssh-keygen -t rsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key) /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Rogers Introduces some Stupid S**t.

Look at what popped up when I was surfing today..

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